The Ticker, October 3, 1989
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* 1932 * ..... StadeBts' 'VoIce for Over 55 Yean * 1989 * Vol. 57 No.8 Baruch College, CUNY October 3, 1989 .-= 16,670 .Students ~ AaronProposes New Register At Baruch .. FlscalGuidelines Baruch Attempts Some Blame By RITA LEAHY To Limit Club' the Flame Expenditures According to Registrar Thomas P. 1.2] 3 of the total and new freshmen By CHRISTOPHER A. WARD McCarthy, 16,670 students registered totaled 1.782. Of the undergraduate By SAMMI PEREZ and TONI COLAVITO for classes for the Fall ]989 semester students, 9,371 were day students and . According to Assistant Dean of Stu at Baruch College. 4,573 were evening students. dents Ronald M. Aaron. there will be The Flame. a day student club spent McCarthy reported that of this McCarthy stated that the most com new fiscal guidelines for the spring S1008 Iast semester on goldCross pen s number, 2.699. were graduate stu mon problem during registration was semester of 1999 presented to all stu as awards for club members. Accord dents, 3,174 were seniors, 3,656 were that "there were not enough courses dent organization leaders. The purpose ing to Associate Dean of Students. offered that students wanted to take '. of the new guidelines is to limit expen Ronald M:Aaron. this is a good exam .·and perhaps too many which students .ditures that are not in the best interest ple of a Club that "rolled over" their did not want to take." He also said of the student body at large. said budget at the end of the semester "for that the 16 credit.zfive-course limit im Aaron. _ the benefit of a few students." (See posed on students did not cause much He added that the Baruch College accompanying story.) hardship for the majority of students Association has been operating with a According to Ben Stanski. former registering. President Joel Segall document that outlines certain proce- president of the Flame, he bought 2 I . McCarthy reported. however. that D duces for the use. the budzetina and gold Cross pens last semester from a on Aug. 23., there was a "hardware .SegaII ,rorms ~ the expenditure. of student-fees-since pharmacy in Queens ~. Y. for 548 problem" which resulted in students . the 1970s. ·'We'''... e been operating with each. he said he saw nothing wrong having to wait an extra two hours for Commissionon adocument which in essence is so~e- with that." Adding "Nobody did any the computers to comeback up. Ac-' .. ' . .. what outdated. outvoted and archaic. thing mthe club except for me and a cording to McCarthy. "It was not part .. Dela·tl-on·s We've talked several times about doing few other people." Stanski said that of our system ... it kept dropping us Race ~ our own in-house cleansing orrevamp- the pens were bought for active rnem out ofthe main program."The workers . ing of guidelines." stated Aaron, bers ofthe clubbut not allthe members took one hourto correct. and an addi- By COLLEEN TIGHE ~,tioI:W. ~,;.to re.lo~J..~-·~X~~~'._. ,"_~__~Q.tL_~P~· t~&9_, PN~~nt- .. .e.. J<><:t -, .•... ;. .A new feature of the on-line rezis- Segall announced the formation of a : ..!!#.t~.·prOce~s i~that'dle_c;ash regi;tef commission, the .J>t1rP<?se.of·whi~:·;;1~ . is. now alsO on-line.' giving workers to evaluate the state.ofmtergroup·~ .:.~ "':"'-..__ ......- L ..:alty to·detenTlj~.~fieffiefast,u': ~i?ns at~.a~~~ '~Cl.~~~: .. _.. .... • ... dent. who wishes to change his/her Segall. in his letter ofSept, 6. 19. Thomas ~ McCarthy~ Registrar. r program. has paid. cited the growing concern over racial i: juniors. 2.515 were sophomores and McCarthy stated that approximately incidents throughout the nation's col- ': 4.222 werefreshmen. An additional 500 people assist in the registration leges as the reason for the commission: . 604 are made up of non-degree stu process. including advisors. part-time Segall said he felt that an article on dents. registrars and students recruited racial and ethnic incidents in the April New transfer students comprised throuzh the Registrar's Office. 26, 1989 edition of The Chronicle ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~H~her~K~rimi mentioned issues' which warrant attention. The articlet. reported that "administrators and, scholars who have studied the inCi~-: Club Activity Increases dents have concluded that they are not ,: .,. " . simply isolated and extremist acts. that.they reflect a disturbing pattern." . Additionally. he quoted the National': At College Institute Against Prejudice and Vio- . lcncc's figure of 175 incidents ofracial ~ cnsion and violence during the 198~' By: GEORGIAK9NTOS 87 Academic Year. - There have been two incidents ofa'.: For a college without a campus. racially-motivated nature in the last~ -Baruch has a pretty active "campus year at Baruch. First. an incident oe-";':"O life:' According to Carl Aylmanvdi- curred involvine a Dav Session Stu- :·:S~.:.,·. .' ".' ,;,_,·.v. - ."'_'.~:'>' . rector ofStudent Activities. there are dent Govemme;'t meeting discussingoi!e, af· the . pojBtS :iB'; ·tiIe-"~'.~·~··~'&i.f.·.~~ __••BW.t..J\s\-i.. about 85-90 dubs in Baruch. and each thcrenting of a bus for the March on ~js a teIl·~ ~ 011'" y~ ·NOs5ii:.·\;~·JRi.il.·"the. semester 10 or 12 more dubs come Washington rally in April. The meet- clubs~expeasesfor·hoIton·a:ndawiitds Rime ·fa!i·seme*r.iS-:••nt* about. So 'far this semester. The ing erupted.into an argument where ~_'all-org3rrizationS'f01JoW'peDS. '~'~IIis:~tiis*pms Money and Financial Investment As-. '- n:~~Wcre exchanged. Sec- their outnned'bac!!.cts. As' a resttIt. at but-when·the--T1ctet"!ftIMIe8lt appeiftl- sociation, African American Greek'ond~rhcrC'was a recent.opinion piece the end of the semester. the)' spend men! to see the merc~. ~he~- Letter Council. Alpha Phi Dclta and . written by black studies professor Ar- theiral~'money all at once. said celled. the Law Society have sprung up.UTLewin (sec The Ticker. Sept. 19..~. Apollo Matthew. treasurer of the . Any group of-studcnts can fonn a.:' .i989) whichdiscusses a faculty peti-] The new' Continued on Page 7) t:>- I club or organizanon provided they. ."on to romo* Vice Presidenl~ require the mccttwo _requircmCnts~ :F~t9_'~'~ .... ;/~I.~ _~ .. ern~ ·to'· _ must be chartered by the Day Sessici.n~'; _',-in8 a ~. When ~·Whether.fonds are go',; Student Government and second ~y' .. iIlci&:lls were COl'ItriIMiiiag fae- -Sometbit'l!". J1lUSt-(fregist~ by the coflc-gc,""_.. :'~9'·b.isd'f$~ftO·~~~~.;:f!'e~~ in ~.:- .._.,. ~_.~~. Aylman. says that some of the cur-, ::;r, '. '.• ScpIl repRca.tbat t~wasOfcriteriaoe _" .". :.~~~ riculumdubs arc very old and very '..~ .nodirect refarion bctweenthe:.two. butCOOtmittcc as'to: Wff;jfi ' .... -:,: tftle· ·!Wa:C.~J.Jl9wcvcrcvery,scmcstera- '' .. thcse·F·-dliDgs *.~ .. in«xMiag~iIow,~h few of the newer clubs die out. The . ill .have;.to .be sensitive to. club shOuld get," $aiclAaron. main reason is' unsuccessful recruit- . , further coa.rncnted that the c~that' In addition. A8n)n also said that menl. said Aylman. Once a certain .et.f:~direetorofStUcIerit· k~ Wertheimer is a racist has-absobUcly -b.stm~~",donotnecessarily· number of .members graduate all at tivities. no merit": and ~ besees intergroup lead to iliCbcst Oec:isiOns on how stu once; the club disintegrates, lent educational component to it. It rclations.ascum:ntly ··notbad~-~Identfees should be used,- Therefore. Besides joining a club for fun and be~ students to Je3m about them-' hopes tt': commission CaD act. as .thCre.willbeadeadliRedarethefollow friendship Aylman said. "It is actuaUy selves, Y00 take the concepts yOu may monitoring force. which ca'possibly.m, semester. fGi' .dabS to requeSt. a Icaming Iaboratory.~t has ~ excel- . (Coniinwd on 'Pag~ 5 .~ (Coniinllt'dQft"~ 5' (C~on'PaRe 7; . / .. I. '-...- -~~.-._'-~_.--,-- I Page 2 The Ticker October 3, 1999 October 3, 1989 The Ticker Page 3 EDITORIALS - 'OP-ED CHRIS WARD JACK BE NIMBLE •• • .011 Founded in 1932 There is a saying, '}\ few rotten apples spoil the barrel." One of those bad apples at Baruch While we applaud President ~ is a club called the Flame. Not only have they spoiled the barrel for the other clubs, they have Caidin MoUison Segalls initiative, we remain con desecrated it. editor-in-chief Absea. cerned about the long-term conse il'l quences of the commission's work. Among our questions are these: 1) I. ..- Diane Leppek AgaiD What procedures will the commission t ~as a graphIC display at- leg or the cat who destroys the fight this war, we must first treat Last year the Flame's leaders spent their entire budget on gold pens to give you as awards to managing editor use to ferret out the racial and ethnic tempting to show the horrors of pool table. Sure, we beat them the enemy as equals. "all active members." The 21 gold pens added up to a total of $1,008. That is a lot of money situation at the college? 2) What mech- drug addiction. The laboratory for a little while, but we don't To paraphrase the elephant Toni Colavito ;p .> anisms will be created to implement rat was given a choice between really blame them. !hey don't man's .cry for similar treatment, for awards, considering no one in the Flame can or will produce a gold pen to show- as evidence To The Editor: the commission's proposals? 3) How,· receiving food or cocaine. The they'r~ news editor know what doing. "We are not animals, we are of their purchase. in light of the fact, that the sentiments animal chose the drug ... until So we wrap up the drug prob human beings." In support of our chairperson, Pro conveyed in the Wertheimer memo it died. lem into a nice neat package of fessor Arthur Lewin's very timely and William Saint Louis ~ere ever dee~~d.